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NECKLACES - Abstract Drop

While no-one really knows what these abstract designs might have meant to the artists who created them or the community within which they were used. 

It is reasonable to suppose that these designs represented abstractions from nature. Vegetal forms: leaves, vines, trees may all have been models. This supposition is based on their similarity to Greek models. Since the Celts had an oral culture the only written records we have from this period are from contemporary cultures who looked at the Celts from the outside - not always understanding what they saw and often judging harshly by their own standards. 

It is also possible that they represented elements like fire or water. I re-enforce this interpretation by using colouring that suggests these elements also playing with the characteristic negative space.

inspiration artefact:
Celtic Iron age Artifact

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